This year’s conference responds to the increasing rate of biodiversity loss from rapid land-use conversion in the tropics, climate change, and the urgent need to adopt a landscape approach to conservation. This strategy consists of multiple stakeholder efforts to employ governance and land-u se planning to facilitate biodiversity conservation across human-dominated, multiple-use landscapes.

The Conference will begin with a keynote address from the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Director Braulio Dias, and a response from a panel of high-level experts representing NGOs, private sector, government institutions, foundations, and academia. Additional panels and breakout sessions will be organized into the following streams: